Lord, Lord, Lord!" She flailed her arms.
"They can't recruit enough engineers of sufficient quality," Lord Baker told The Independent.
Recent biographies similarly abound, varying in aim and quality: Lord David Cecil's elegant and unassuming "portrait" in 1978; Park Honan's scrupulous "cradle-to-grave" history in 1987; Claire Tomalin's brisk, superlative "life" and David Nokes's lengthier, more imaginative account, both in 1997.
The quality of lords' relationships with their dependents, free and unfree, has been debated, with some historians stressing the predatory, exploitative aspects of lordship and others emphasizing its protective, beneficial features.
It was not just that Golding was unusually conscious of the incipient darkness in everyday life, a quality exemplified by Lord of the Flies, it was also that, as Judy puts it, "he refused to look away.
According to a Republican media specialist who requested anonymity because he does not want to damage future client prospects, "Romney has a Little Lord Fauntleroy quality.
And it's true; holiday photos from Iceland have an unreal quality, like a still from Lord of the Rings doctored by a Photoshop expert to play around with, whilst 80% of Greenland's surface closely resembles the ice planet Hoth from the second Star Wars film.
We keep coming to Lord not for the quality of the pastries, but for the whiff of nostalgia.
He replied: "The lords feared that the quality of champagne would not be as good if they chose a joint service".
After 15 Test innings there remains one piece of stand-out quality – a gutsy and defiant 95 at Lord's against South Africa.
Alongside these rooms, overlooking the Great Tower, were the private rooms for the lord's family, of higher quality than the other accommodation in the castle.
